ROCK SOLID: After losing four straight games, coach Tom Coughlin has the Giants still believing they can turn it around and be title contenders this season.AP

IT IS Tom Coughlin, more than anyone, who stands as a source of comfort for a desperate team with its back against the wall.

Tom Coughlin, The Other Coach in town this week.

Tom Coughlin, The Coach Who Does Not Cry.

Tom Coughlin, The Coach Who Loves General Patton.

Tom Coughlin, The Coach Who Has Been to the White House.

Tom Coughlin, The Big Blue Rock of the Giants.

“His personality and his demeanor definitely is a strength for this team in a situation like this because you know he’s not gonna waver,” Mathias Kiwanuka said yesterday. “You know he’s gonna tell you straight up what the situation is and what we have to get done. He’s a strong leader, so yeah, it’s definitely helpful in this situation.”

“Having Coach Coughlin at all times is a source of comfort,” Justin Tuck said.

“I’ll just run off some stats for you,” Tuck said. “Think we’ve made the playoffs four straight years. . . . Think we won a Super Bowl. . . . I think he’s changed guys’ careers with his knowledge of this game. . . . I think he’s a guy that you know exactly what you’re gonna get from him, there ain’t no in-between or buts about it. . . . When you know what to expect from a guy, you can be very confident in expecting that from him all times, regardless if it’s good or bad.”

Coughlin is a fighter, and if you don’t think he will come out swinging against the Falcons, then you don’t know the man.

“He’s had his back against the wall in his career,” Jeff Feagles said. “He’s been on top of the world, and he’s been around the block. He’s such a great leader, and he has the ability to get his players to rise to the occasion, and that’s this week. It’s a great asset to have someone like him at the helm.”

Coughlin has not allowed his team to stay down.

“He’s just told us he has confidence in this group,” Feagles said, “and it’s his job to get us to believe in ourselves and get out of this rut. ‘Get your dawbers up, and let’s go play.’ A lot of guys are champing at the bit to get back on the field.”

To prove naysayers like me, who called the Giants imposters as far as being a championship team, dead wrong.

“I still believe we are,” Tuck said.

In your heart, is this still a championship team?

“Absolutely,” Kiwanuka said.

And 52 other guys believe that?

“They better,” Kiwanuka said.

Call them Coughlin’s True Blue believers.

“It’s not about me, it’s about we, the team,” Coughlin said. He is still passionate about his craft, and about winning, after all these years.

“We’re all trying to do the best we can to point our team in the right direction,” Coughlin said. “Sometimes when you lose some games, it is mental. . . . Yeah, we gotta play well . . . in this situation, I think it’s a clear head, a clear vision, a knowledge that, ‘This is it,’ it’s a very narrow path that we’re on. . . . There isn’t any question about being able to see exactly what the goal is and the objective is.”

I asked Tuck what the most emotional he has seen Coughlin.

“Probably the night before the Super Bowl,” Tuck said.

No tears.

“I don’t think Tom is a crier,” Tuck said, “but, I guess to each his own.”

“I saw a lot of emotion out of him when I let Vince Young go my rookie year, on the sidelines,” Kiwanuka said, and chuckled.

How would you feel, if hypothetically . . .

“Hypothetically, if Coughlin were to cry, it wouldn’t change my opinion of him at all,” Kiwanuka said. “Because I know what kind of man he is, I know what kind of leader he is. And it would have to be something that’s really deep and meaningful to him for it to come across like that to his players, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. I think a lot of coaches who delve into that deep emotion in the right way, they get more out of their players than most other coaches could or would expect to get out them.”